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100

This critical piece of information, often found under the, "About" section in Splunk, is essential when opening a support case.

What is Splunk version?

100

This is the primary purpose of Splunk, enabling organizations to make sense of machine-generated data.

What is collecting, indexing, and analyzing machine-generated data?

100

Types of search modes supported in Splunk

What is Fast Mode, Smart Mode, and Verbose Mode?

100

Customers on the Standard Success Plan receive this many Education Training Units.

What is 700?

100

The number of pillars or partnership areas.

What is three?

200

This command-line tool is used to collect diagnostic information from Splunk instances and is commonly requested by Support to troubleshoot issues.

What is splunk diag?

200

Splunk uses this query language to search, filter, and analyze data.

What is Search Processing Language (SPL)?

200

Type of Splunk Cloud deployment that supports self-service app installation

What is Victoria Experience?

200

This Splunk platform offers on-demand training and certifications to help customers deepen their knowledge of Splunk.

What is STEP?

200

This persona is responsible for the adoption of new customer use cases.

Who is the Solutions Architect (formerly SE)?

300

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When submitting a support ticket, these three key details about the issue ensure faster resolution,

What are the problem description, steps to reproduce, and relevant logs?

300

This Splunk component is responsible for storing and managing indexed data.

What is the indexer?

300

The amount of time that data restored from DDAA is searchable

What is 30 days?

300

This is the primary online portal where customers can find documentation, guides, and resources for using Splunk products.

What is Splunk Documentation?

300

This is a collaborative process to account for and mitigate risk.

What is Unified Risk Management (URM)?

400

This Splunk log file, located under $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/splunk, is often reviewed by Support for errors related to indexing and search.

What is splunkd.log

400

This type of Splunk component forwards data from remote sources to Splunk indexers.

What is a Splunk forwarder?

400

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The size of uncompressed data that is indexed on a daily basis in Splunk Cloud is used to help customers define which part of the Splunk architecture?


What is storage?

400

Premium Success customers receive this many OnDemand credits to enhance their Splunk experience.

What is 30?

400

Tasks required in support of a customers business objectives are contained in this plan

What is a Success Plan?

500

Splunk support may request targeted logging by adjusting settings for specific components. Engineers achieve this by modifying this configuration file or running this REST API endpoint.

What are log.cfg and services/server/logger?

500

In SPL, these two commands can be used to filter results based on specific conditions.

What are the where and search commands?

500

This model helps quantify the business benefits and cost differentiation for choosing between different Splunk deployment options (e.g. on-prem, BYOL, SaaS)?

What is the Total Cost of Ownership or TCO Model?

500

This is the name of Splunk's online community where customers can connect with peers, share best practices, and get help from experts.

What is Splunk Community or Splunk Answers?

500

Risks can be identified by this group.

Who is everyone?

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